CPOY 74 Portfolio Award of Excellence: Rafael Heygster
A body of work that demonstrates versatility, expertise and depth and showcases a photographer’s vision.
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War does not only manifest itself as a military conflict on battlefields with clear physical fronts, but appears more abstractly in our society in various places. “I died 22 times“ deals with the question "Where does war begin?" The series combines motifs from different scenarios. Images of weapons fairs (war as a business) are combined with motives of Airsoft, a dubious leisure activity (war as a game). Both scenarios have one thing in common: "War" is staged as something entertaining and at the same time harmless. Nobody dies. War is thereby made consumable. The photographic work and shows and questions the way our culture deals with "warfare" outside real battlefields.